Back home following their most successful road trip in nine seasons, the Los Angeles Lakers look to keep the momentum going at Staples Center. Facing one of the league's worst road teams looks promising, but Oklahoma City is playing some of its best basketball of the season.

The Lakers go for their seventh consecutive win on Tuesday night against a Thunder squad targeting its first three-game winning streak of the season.

Los Angeles (41-9) finished a 6-0 road trip on Sunday by handing the Cleveland Cavaliers their first home loss of the season, 101-91. It was the Lakers' first undefeated six-game trip since Feb. 15-23, 2000, which took place during a 19-game winning streak.

After averaging 35.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 5.0 assists during the first five games of the trip, Kobe Bryant scored just 19 against Cleveland as he battled the flu. He scored 31.8 points per game on 52.1 percent shooting as the Lakers went 4-0 against the Oklahoma City franchise in 2007-08.

I think he's gonna play, he had an opportunity to do this last time and he skipped out even though he was banged up, he has the flu so you never know but I know Kobe wants to keep the best record so that's why I think he's gonna play.